http://www.globalchange.com Values really matter. People want to make a difference and feel proud of who they work for. Aditya Birla example of corporate responsibility and community involvement. Increasing motivation, winning war for talent, staff and customer retention and stronger brand and corporate image. Work of AIDS charity ACET as expression of corporate responsibility. Conference keynote speaker and Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon.How to make things happen in Business. Connect with passion, keys to motivation, leadership and change management in business. Managing uncertainty with rapid change. Leadership styles. Why people get out of bed in the morning. How to motivate teams at work to do great things. Business management. Secret of leadership and ultimate leadership speech. Business ethics and values in corporations. Secrets of business success and increased productivity. Cutting costs. Increasing output. Adding shareholder value. Sustainable business success. Work life balance and lessons from non profits / volunteering. Why building a better world is such a powerful motivation. Lecture by Dr Patrick Dixon for MTN, author of Building a Better Business, Futurewise and conference speaker.Motivation at work. Leadership. Leadership purpose, aims, strategy and objectives. Profits and profitability. Motivation to succeed and secrets of business success. Productivity and efficiency key. Workplace morale. Team dynamics and leadership styles. Business mission and vision. Business values and office culture.

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http://www.globalchange.com Most older consumers are women and most online sales are to women. Female consumers as pressure group and major economic force. Women and online banking. Why women own most of America and most of the UK — living longer than men and wealth in pension funds and property. Feminisation of society, culture and business, workplace, work-life balance and emotional intelligence. Winning the war for female talent. Feminization of products and services. Niche marketing and advertising campaigns targeting women. Conference keynote speaker and Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon.

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We asked Nadir Mohamed, President & CEO, Rogers Communications about the role leadership has played in his success and how the concept of leadership is changing over time. “One of the key pieces for any leader is to listen. I believe it was Gandhi [who said], ‘There go my people. I must follow because I am their leader.’” From Canadian Business’ Portraits in Leadership program: featuring reflections on leadership from 20 great Canadian business leaders.

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The Finnish conglomerate have long been ruling the roost of the mobile scene not in any particular country or region, but the whole world. Nokia as a company probably enjoys more brand loyalty than any other mobile brand present today. The two major factors that lead to the immense popularity of Nokia mobile phones are easy handling and better network reception.

During the initial stage of mobile boom, the easy to use Nokia handset had a definite edge over its rivals which were comparatively complicated. Moreover, navigation of almost all Nokia handsets were the same so people don’t find any hassle in changing one Nokia to another. This lead to the enviable brand loyalty towards Nokia specially among the higher aged groups of mobile users.

But as the market got matured and people started to get accustomed with the different functions, other players in the market came up very strongly with handsets equipped with better features and importantly, at a lesser price than Nokia handsets. But these competitions didn’t pose any serious threat to Nokia’s position as global leader with more than a lion’s share of the total mobile market.

The rapid shift of today’s customer focus from easy interface towards new and enhanced features have made Nokia loose atleast some of its sheen. New Symbian Operating system used in Nokia handsets is far from the best software platform. The R & D department of Nokia are yet to come up with a software free from bugs. Almost all Nokia phones today have a lag of around 1 second which can get frustrating sometimes. The Symbian media player of the most advanced Nokia smartphones can be best compared to Sony Ericsson’s media player Walkman 1.0. But the later have came up with a even upgraded version – Walkman 2.0.

Despite these drawbacks, Nokia still have managed to come up with highly popular, target specific handsets, like N series for multimedia, E series for business and L’Amour collection as fashion solution.

Keith Rickwood
http://www.articlesbase.com/cell-phones-articles/nokia-mobile-phones-troubled-leadership-102294.html

In 1975, India’s Department of Telecom was separated from P&T. Until 1985, DoT had all telecommunication services in the country under its management. It ceased to be when Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited was taken out of DoT’s wing. MTNL in turn administered the telecommunication services of Delhi and Mumbai.

The telecommunications sector entered into a massive liberalization and privatization program starting the 1990s. This necessitated the separation of the government’s policy making roles with that of its operational functions. The Government of India corporatised the operations wing of DoT on October 01, 2000 and named it as Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited. Many private operators entered the high potential Indian telecommunications market. Among them are big names such as Reliance India Mobile, Tata Telecom, Vodafone, BPL, Bharti, and Idea, among others.

The Indian government had a hard time reconciling various views with regards to the liberalization of the telecommunications sector in the country. Some of the political leaders were willing to throw open the market to foreign players and some others wanted the government to regulate infrastructure and restrict the involvement of foreign players. But, a consensus was made which paved the way for the 1981 contract signing of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi with Alcatel CIT of France to merge with the state owned Telecom Company. The projection for this joint venture was the setting up of 5,000,000 lines per year.

But not long after, political pressures grew that despite of the efforts of PM Gandhi, one of which was an invitation she extended to Sam Pitroda a US based NRI to set up a Center for Development of Telematics, plans for liberalization had to be shelved.
Later, under the leadership of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, many public sector organizations were set up like the Department of Telecommunications, VSNL and MTNL. Many technological developments took place during his term but the country’s telecommunications business was still heavily working on a protectionist framework.

And yet the demand for telephones has been on the rise. It was during this period that the P.M. Rao led government introduced the national telecommunications policy in 1994. Changes in the areas of ownership, service and regulation of telecommunications infrastructure were in place. Where previous joint ventures failed between state owned telecommunications companies and international players, this time, it was all systems go. But still complete ownership of facilities was restricted only to government-owned organizations.

Foreign firms were allowed only ownership of up to 49% of the total stake, which represents mostly their contribution in technology transfer.

During this period, recommendations from the World Bank and the ITU pushed for the liberalization of India’s long distance services, which consequently released the monopoly of the state owned DoT and VSNL and opened the field to other players.

The Rao-led government indeed implemented liberalization but not according to the WB-ITU’s recommendations. Instead, the country’s local services was the target of liberalization efforts, which was a good way too in taking the opposition’s confidence while not alienating foreign telecoms involvement. It promised that long distance phone liberalization will follow after 5 years.

Gen Wright
http://www.articlesbase.com/gadgets-and-gizmos-articles/bbg-communications-communications-in-india-722630.html

2015 scenario: Future by 2020. http://www.globalchange.com communications, marketing, management, leadership, virtual teams and virtual organisations. Customer focus in product design, advertising, brand development, software and hardware. Mobile marketing and positional advertising trends. Consumer use of personal organisers and mobile devices, mobile phones and other technology. Virtual switchboards, virtual meetings and distance learning. Future bandwidth, video streaming demand, convergence and divergence of technology. Future innovations in communication. Mobile phone strategy for emerging markets and developed markets. Banks will become phone companies and telecom companies will become banks using personal organisers. Mobile payment systems, micropayments, mobile phone credit card transactions and loans. All innovation is divergent – doing things different and better. But most companies focus on convergence on price, quality, features.image, branding, winning customers, online marketing and building trust. Consumer changes, preferences and lifestyles. Keynote conference futurist speaker – Patrick Dixon. Energy saving, global warming, carbon neutral business and helping climate change. Videoconferencing and virtual teams. Winning the war for talent – motivation and leadership styles.

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Due to apparent complexity of the strategic changes business,

many good operational managers get paralyzed that is coupled

with everyday pressure of keeping the business running.

Strategic changes mainly occurs when a crucial activity in

favour of thrusting leadership and rigorous movement gets no

attention in a business.Then how will the operational managers

tackle the strategic changes in the business?How will they sky

high their business?How will they manage the dual roles of a

manager and a leader?

The answer is ‘adoptation’. Adopting new ways of thinking

in advance of new ways of working in a business. If the four

key skills of the operational managers are mastered,it will

help you to make those first tentative step towards the

Boardroom.There are four foundational skills which are useful

for your business to soar high.They are:-

Dual focus.

Involving communication.

Collaboration.

Professional effectiveness.

Dual focus:- Commonly heard complaint from the board member

as they review the next generation of talent in their

business is that,’they do not think strategically’. Focus

on the ’5Ws’like who, when, where, why, and what? when

encountering new issues, initiative or proposal.

Involving communications:- When asked the reasons of the

failure of the previous change project more than 90% cite

poor communication.Analysis reveals that most of the change

project has been accompanied by a communication plan but

problem continued. This was due to the propensity to look

inward and not outward when developing their plans.

Collaboration:- “stay close to your allies and even closer

to your enemies” is an important phrase followed by most

of the operational managers.In the context of business

managing strategic give a thought to anyone who has

something to lose in the process as your ‘enemy’, and

seek out ways for head start. This is not the act of

compromising but finding ways for both the party to win.

Treat your enemy with respect and anticipate their likely

responses to your strategy and create your plans to either

reduce the impact of their reactions or eliminate it

altogether.With the right strategic glasses on, your enemy

can become your window opportunity and potentially a long

term ally.Professionally effectiveness:-look around your

organization and particularly at Board level and ask

question as who is the best professional and why? Compare

yourself with the other professional and spot the areas

which need focusing and balancing this with more ego-

centric exercise with several question like what you want

out of life and what you are prepared to give ?

think collboration and how can you collaborate with your

organization to devise a role or a working framework that

meets your needs whilst making a valued contribution to

the business strategy.

Article written by soma.

Hansi
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/how-to-tackle-the-strategic-change-in-business-90166.html